September 2021

Shinmeizan continues its activity as a `House of Prayer` and as a “Center for Interreligious Dialog”.

Among the guests we welcomed this month, besides the ten participants in the monthly retreat of Sept. 9th, we wish to mention in a special way the visit of Mr. Yoichi Fukuda, of the new religious group Byakkoshinkokai, who came on Sept. 3, to spend a day with us to concentrate on his study of Saint Maximilian Kolbe;

the two Sisters Adoratrices who came for a week long retreat (Sept. 11-19); and Olimpia Niglio,  Professor of comparative architecture at the Hosei University of Tokyo (Sept. 21-28).

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 Among the activities of interreligious dialog, we were particularly involved with a conference on interreligious dialog held via internet (`zoom`) by Fr. Franco and Sr. Maria on September 30th for the Association of Missionary Institutes `ad gentes` (=ANIMAG) of Portugal.

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